Hose-carriage.



PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905.

H. B. GARY. HOSE CARRIAGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed May 18. 1905. Serial at. 261,005.

To tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY BOUNDS GARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels for Lawn- Hose; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and use ful improvements in reels for lawn-hose, and has for its object to provide a reel which shall be simple and economic of construction and durable in use and which shall also serve to preserve the hose from decay and destruction.

With these ends in View my invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention pertains may know how to make and appreciate the advantages of my improved reel, I will proceed to describe the same, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of a hose-reel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View, on an enlarged scale, of the clamp secured to the reel and adapted to embrace and hold the nozzle of the hose; and Fig. A is a similar view showing the central ring or hoop in solid lines and the two outer ones in broken lines, connected together by what I denominate spokes.

Similar reference -numerals indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 2 3 are the three rings or hoops of wire of suitable gage to secure proper strength and rigidity of the structure. The two outside rings or hoops l and 3 are of sufliciently greater diameter than the central or intermediate ring or hoop 3 to form when braced and connected together as will be presently explained a peripheral receptacle for a hose of ordinary length. The two rings or hoops 1 and 3 are connected together and to the in termcdiate ring or hoop 3 of smaller diameter by what I denominate spokes 4, consisting of wire of suitable gage and which is coiled around the central ring or hoop 2, as shown at 5, and its terminals similarly coiled around the two larger and outside rings or hoops 1 and 3, and thus constitute braces or spokes connecting the two larger outside rings or hoops in fixed relation with each other and 'with the central ring or hoop 2, and in such relation to one another thata peripheral space or recess is provided for the reception of a series of coils of an ordinary lawn-hose, as indicated at Fig. 1.

In order to secure the spokes I against any circumferential movement and to maintain them in their predetermined relation, one or more of the rings or hoops are crimped, as shown at 6, (see Figs. 2 and 4,) to receive the coils of the spokes 4:.

At one locality upon the periphery of the central ring or hoop 2 is located a nozzle clamp or receptacle 7, consisting of wire, and after being coiled about the central ring or hoop 2, as shown at 8, (see Fig. 3,) the ter minals 4c are coiled about the two rings or hoops 1 and 3 to constitute spokes similar to the others hereinbefore referred to. The coils 8 of this nozzle-holder are preferably located in crimps in the intermediate or central ring or hoop 2, similar to the crimps 6 hereinbefore referred to.

From the construction and arrangement described it will be seen that the nozzle of an ordinary hose being placed within the nozzlereceptacle 7, with the reel over the hose, that the latter may be expeditiously coiled upon the reel by simply causing the reel to traverse upon the ground, and that consequently any water contained within the hose will during the traverse of the reel freely flow out and leave the hose perfectly or comparatively dry, and that owing to the easy convolutions of the hose and the absence of contained water the hose will be fully protected against breakage or deterioration, and that the reel may be utilized as a convenient means for the transportation of the coiled hose from the place of use to that of storage. The fact that the three rings or hoops l 2 3 are braced and connected by the spokes 4, as described, the structure as a whole is given strength and rigidity in substantially the same way that the strength and rigidity of an ordinary bicycle-wheel is secured, and consequently it may be made of comparatively cheap and light-gage wire, and thus produced at a minimum cost of manufacture and sold at a reasonable price.

I am of course aware that it has been heretofore proposed to make a hose-reel adapted to receive a hose upon supports constituting connections between parallel rings or hoops; but in all such constructions with which 1 am familiar the weight of the coiled hose soon l results in the dismemberment of the parts, while in the construction and arrangement of my improved reel with the intermediate and central ring or hoop of smaller diameter braced and connected with the two outer par allel rings or hoops of greater diameter the original integrity and relation of the parts is absolutely secured, thus accomplishing great durability and strength.

Having described the construction and advantages of my improved reel for hose, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hose-reel consisting of three rings or hoops, two of equal diameter and one of less diameter braced and connected by spokes constituting a receptacle for coils of hose, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. In a hose-reel such as described, two rings or hoops of equal diameter and an intermediate ring or hoop of smaller diameter, a said three rings or hoops connected in parallel relation by a series of radial connections or spokes suitably attached to said rings or hoops, as hereinbefore set forth.

3. In a hose-reel such as described and consisting of two rings or hoops of equal diameter and an intermediate ring or hoop of hoops, substantially smaller diameter connected by radial spokes consisting of Wire coiled about said rings or as hereinbefore set forth. such as described and consisting of two rings or hoops of equal diameter and an intermediate ring or hoop of smaller diameter connecting spokes composed of Wire coiled about the three rings or hoops, and said coils located in crimps in one of said rings or hoops, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. v

5. In a hose-reel such as described and consisting of two outside rings or hoops of equal diameter and an intermediate ring or hoop of less diameter joined and connected by wire spokes, a nozzle clamp or holder composed of wire coiled about the central ring or hoop and with its terminals coiled about the par allel outside rings or hoops and constituting connections or spokes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY BOUNDS CARY.

I. In a hose-reel Witnesses JAooB B. GINTHER, HENRY E. SToRRs. 

